LINUX Basics

Introduction to linux operating system

• operating system services
• why linux

Different types operating systems

• Monolithic
• Micro etc

Basic linux user commands
Linux root file system structure.
Introduction to GNU Tool chain

• GCC compiler
• Make file
• GDB

Introduction to Device Drivers - Module Programming

• The role of the device driver
• Classification of Devices and Modules
• Building and running Modules
• Hello world Module
• Process context, interrupt context, Kernel timers
• The Linux device model (devices, udev,sysfs,procfs)
• Character Driver basics

Writing Device Driver Programming in Linux.

• Open, Read, Write and Close System Calls
• Major and Minor Numbers
• Charater Device Data structures
• Charater Device Registration
• Writing Simple Charater Device Driver
• Debugging by Printing, Concurrency and Race Conditions (Semaphores, Mutexes, Completions, Spinlocks)
• Advance char device operations (ioctl), Kernel Timer
• I/O Ports and I/O Memory - Writing Parallel port driver Interfacing With LED, Seven Segment Display.
• Interrupt Handling With Parallel Port
• UART Driver
  

Kernel Configuration and Compilation for 0x86Requirements for Building and using the kernel,

• Retrieving the Kernel Source
• Configuring and Building, Installing and Booting from a Kernel
• Upgrading a kernel, Customizing a Kernel
• Boot loader - Grub Loader, U-Boot

Implementing Device driver application program related to the Driver

• Interaction between the User and Kernel Level With System calls
• Explain Device driver application flowchart
• Exaplain kernel Device driver and user device driver program